skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A sci-fi book from a right-wing politician that really, truly understands his political opponents, sounds interesting:

> The Powers of the Earth is set forty years from now, when the Global Fair Deal’s command economy has mired Earth in a long-term depression, profitable businesses have been shut down and their CEOs put on trial, military fitness standards have been relaxed to accommodate “alternatively abled soldiers,” the Bureau of Sustainable Research bans technological innovation because it destroys jobs, and on and on.

Oh dear me.
Avoiding Stress is the best way to keep it together for me lately
I don't think most people realize how much plastic they wear.
In the agile/scrum world people often do a daily "standup" meeting where you go over what you did yesterday and plan on doing today.

Many of the teams I've worked with recently have moved to doing this async with a "standup" message in slack etc.
Thanks for the elaboration.

For what it is worth, the assertion in the post by acoup you linked to that I am most confident is false is, "prior to that mechanical milling, brown rice was all that was available for the poor".

I believe that to be false because I am confident that using the primitive technique depicted in both of the videos I linked to, continuing to pound the rice continues to remove rice bran with the result that with enough pounding, the fraction of bran left on the grain can be driven down to 0.1% or lower, which I'm sure no one would call brown rice.

This "0.1%-brown" rice might consist mostly of grains that have broken into 2 or 3 or 4 pieces, but I've cooked and eaten white rice like that in the past, which is how I know it is perfectly edible and as far as I can tell just as nutritious as intact grains. (The broken pieces I got were the product of modern manufacturing: probably the factory has an easy way to separate broken pieces from intact grains, and for cosmetic purposes, omitted broken pieces from their product, and then they gave the broken pieces to a food bank or something like that.)
Hmm, but what would make you upgrade from the free tier to premium? Because you still can't try the premium features. Wouldn't I still need to provide a trial for the premium features, for you to decide whether they are worth upgrading?
Love these kinds of articles. (Now, I can only imagine how insanely more complex the modern hardware is!)
Unscientific American
This talk of a ratio is mostly irrelevant. Palestinians are not being killed as a matter of retribution. They are being killed as enemies or collateral in the pursuit of enemies.

If Israel could neutralise Hamas and retrieve the hostages with zero casualties, they would do it. That's obviously impossible.
It depends on if they have a "tampering with safety equipment" style law that applies - many times safety features must be equipped when sold but there's not actually a law against disabling or removing.
Data brokers and the customer, ultimately.
The delivery stuff is a sleeper, especially standing desks and other mid range expensive appliances.
Also on GCP, the vCPUs are usually hyperthreads (except for t2d- instance types, and perhaps a few others). So that machine you've described has 1 CPU core.
I am going to sound like a luddite, I know, but I find that we underestimate the touchy-feely ideas when economics is so much squishier than physics or biology.

collecting data about atoms from spectrometers just doesn't have the same subjectivity and political interests as various economic data and definitions do.

As an outsider there is so much orthodoxy to economics it feels more like the church of pythagoras and we look to burn the Hippasus of our times. In physics MOND seems more entertained than some of the people who dare to question economics...
Honda's current privacy policy is here:

https://www.honda.com/privacy/connected-product-privacy-noti...
S-risks: fates worse than extinction [video]
But then you don't get over the air "updates". That would probably void your warranty.

Has anyone ever figured out exactly what Tesla sends when it phones home?
I use Uptime Robot for this: https://uptimerobot.com/

I just configure it to access some endpoint on the API server. It checks it every minute and if it fails (non 200) it pings me.

You can also set it up in more complex ways but this is easy.
"I disagree, therefore the author is a paid shill with ulterior motives" is not a good approach to discourse.

Just engage with the argument on its own merits -- valid arguments don't become invalid just because someone had an ulterior motive in making them, and conversely, invalid arguments don't become valid ones just because their proponents have honest motivations.
> The “fatal flaw” of skipping maintenance to max out value-add work seems like it could be addressed

Who says it's a flaw? And even if it is, who says it needs to be addressed?

It's all contextual: tech debt used to be a flaw that could destroy a product, but nowadays I'm seeing teams rewriting components of their products every 18 months in whatever new fad seems to come along.

Why care about debt when it's going to be written off in the future?

And even if it isn't, the person who accumulated the debt did so by adding features - he's the man that delivers, so he gets to go up the ladder

It's not a fair world: anyone who actually cares about bugcount, product quality, customer satisfaction and sustainable velocity just isn't going to get recognised for the fires they prevented.
I made a little platform to house some of my simple tools. It is part REPL, part form-builder. All tools run on the client, which constrains what is possible, but still proves useful for many basic applications.

For example, convert Word to Markdown…
https://www.takeymakey.com/convert/files/word-to-markdown/

Or this quick anagram checker…
https://www.takeymakey.com/calculate/text/anagram-checker/
Awesome!! Surprised I didn’t know that as I’ve explored plantnet in the past. I’ll add those in!
If someone’s breaking into my house and disassembling my IoT coffee machine to hook up some JTAG cables I have bigger problems than someone getting my WiFi password - such as the fact the pricks in my house.
the cookie popups are next level on this site
But on the other hand many really well skilled would avoid the application
Nice work. Any details how it compares to Redis in terms of performance etc? (besides avoiding an extra service when you already have Postgres running)
That doesn't give you a fixed device ID like fingerprinting does.

A fixed device ID survives even when an app is uninstalled and reinstalled and is the same for unaffiliated apps.
Just a nit: The Chinese breaker isn't providing safety. You should still be caring about its quality because it's handling a lot of current (and potential power).
AI for engineers: Implementation, challenges, and best practices
From all the studies I have found, the biggest contributor to micro plastics is tires making up almost 80% of the pollution.

I wonder what percent synthetic clothing material contributes to the overall micro plastic pollution?
Khan Academy is great, but for anything you’re going to need to sit down there with them. I’d start with the grade level test to see what they are missing then you can hone in on that. Or if they are missing some core concepts you can go back as many grades as you need. With an hour per day of _your_ time as well as theirs they can plow through multiple years of material in months.
The statement of the argument is classic Dualism. I am pretty sure that Dennett is setting up the scene in order to poke holes in the said argument.
Interesting to see a SaaS doing something like this! I mostly meant productized services or simply agencies doing something like "product iteration engines".
The best way to have complex discussions?
Not sure what you mean but thanks for the comment!
You don't HAVE to carry home insurance do you? You can also change policies for different levels of insurance at any time. It's not exactly a debt, but an ongoing service
I'm kind of surprised that washing machines don't have that sort of filter already. I recently cleaned out two of the filters in my own washing machine and it did a pretty decent job catching a lot of things. I guess because it's so fine it would have to be cleaned out more?
Also depends what buttons - it makes sense to have the "Might need to push quickly in an emergency" buttons big and physical - they're already shown to be treated differently in the current implementation, being larger and red in the photos.

But for things not really needed in such a situation? Or even access to things that aren't available within reach otherwise due to size constraints? A touchscreen might be the best solution.

There's probably more total sensors in the reactor than there can be physical dials for in a room of that size - there'a probably already some level of ordering which are the "important" ones, or which are at prime real-estate by the operators on the panel and not the other side of the room.

There's lots of steps between "Huge array of switches and dials for every possible thing" and "Single ipad in the middle of an empty room", after all.
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/gpus#nvidia_gpus_for_c...
Well, the article specifically references Japanese businesses
I like the selection at Costco more than Sam's Club, but the shopping experience isn't nearly as good. I love being able to walk into Sam's and checkout without ever getting in line. Of course, Walmart has always been ahead of the curve in terms of technology.
Yes, it's insane. The amount of clicks it takes to get anywhere, too.

One of the neatest things of my client is that I can cycle through unified diffs of the history of one page with a single key stroke. It's not perfect (macros are a problem) but good enough for me.
I certainly don't find this. I swing by Costco to buy Coca Cola and imported British Cheddar for ~1/10th the price that any of the supermarkets have it, and basically never leave with anything else. Just those two things make it worth the membership.
Of course it can be done. Somewhere there is an LTE modem that can be physically disabled.
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You just pull that from the atmosphere.

Compress to store [potential] energy, take the heat generated during compression and use it, decompress at time of need and let the [hot?] atmosphere supply energy to the decompressing gas.

I wouldn’t call it a closed loop, but maybe a lack of deficit.
Haha, yeah, @jdorfman's sibling comment mentions the tools we use. Any mentions on HN, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, etc., show up in our team chat. The gold standard, of course, is Sid at GitLab ("GitLab CEO here" :).
if you don't need hyperdisk, why are you on that type of server?
All monitoring systems have a no-data condition. Use that.
Gas obsession is fascinating to me since it isn't even the main expense of owning a vehicle in estimation.

One of the execs at my company that has since retired once spent 2 hours waiting to fill up his BMW when the local gas station had a free $20 of gas promo. Always boggled my mind how that guy thought it was worth his time to do that, but I guess it deprived some poor person he edged out of $20 so it was worth it in the end, lol.
I was able to get my LG oven to stop broadcasting it's network by downloading LG's app, temporarily connecting the oven to my phone's hotspot, then just renaming the hotspot SSID.

Now, my oven does not broadcast it's own WiFi, and instead will forever be trying to connect to a non-existent network.
I remember how difficult it is to find a job nowadays. It sends shivers down your spine. Good luck to everyone who is searching!
I doubt anyone other than Tesla is doing that. Other automakers probably just aren't bothering, and they also don't have the vertically integrated service model that Tesla does.
Most kids jackets are fleece...
That's a good question that has a lot of people scratching their heads. My best guess is top Ukrainian leadership are staffed by a lot of former mass media people, including the president himself (well, until May 20th when his term ends).
>Walmart has always been ahead of the curve in terms of technology.

I'm sure they'll even figure out contactless payment any day now!
Can it also explain the following:
"An alien named abcdpqrs landed on earth yesterday. What is the name of the alien who landed yesterday on earth?"

Chatgpt answers it correctly. abcdpqrs is perhaps not in the training set. If it is we can pick some othername.
There might be something in Accessibility that could work; unfortunately phones are so strongly built around "one user" that it would be hard to turn on and off.
"Thank god, they would have left anyway."
Agreed, I think.

Does his framework include a measure of output too by looking at ROI? So if you are able to deliver more effectively, that should increase ROI independently of whether you reduce the amount of muda time.
I mean, it's not strange to think that the ideal state for software is "used as widely as possible while maximizing profit."
> skills and engagement

Which, for a lot of cases (not universally, of course), is a function of your wallet's size anyway. Depending on your income and/or net worth, you can afford to spend a lot of your time on those, or not so much.
A supermajority of Gazans are literally not old enough to have ever voted in an election. Hamas won the 2006 election by force, and immediately replaced open democratic process with a system of internal Shura councils. Palestine did not elect Hamas.
Can you give some brand names? Really interested in this.
Onshape is a pretty popular CAD package! We use it for robot hardware (moving away from Fusion).
Volcanoes and Us (2015) [video]
Consider whether we should define electrons to be "positive" or "negative": there isn't any fact of the matter, it's merely a convention. But it doesn't seem like experiencing pain works this way: pain feels a particular way. If pain is just a mathematical entity, there shouldn't be any particular way that it feels, since it's just a symbol.

Maybe we're deeply wrong about our intuitions, and actually no conscious experience is happening in the brain at all, despite the brain having an incorrect model about itself which predicts this (and causes it to make utterances claiming that it has experiences). That's the school of thought known as eliminitivism. Under this view, all suffering is a myth, in the same way that luckiness and angels are.
Israel has sat pretty quietly for 75 years next to people regularly firing rockets at them and attacking their people. People that don't accept its existence and have a charter that can describe pretty closely what a proper definition of genocide can look like. Something that is far away from the conduct of Israel, even if it isn't perfect.
One problem is that consequences are difficult to ensure in the anonymous crypto-anarchist utopia some users wish internet to be. This friction has been around since the very early days of the net, some thinking that internet should exist outside the traditional governance and loudly rejecting any government involvement in the internet. In practice that has proven to be untenable but that legacy still lives on.
This gives you some structure to start with.
If you include the surrounding context, that al Ahli had been targeted before, and since, and that other hospitals had also been not only targeted but actively sieged for days, at is in fact credible that the Israeli military targeted and hit the Hospital.

Now remote forensics on the site makes it implausible that the initial reports of an Israeli airstrike were true, however we still haven’t ruled out other types of munitions by the Israeli military.

Note that the initial reports of those supportive of Israel were also false. They claimed that they captured the rockets which they claimed hit the hospital on camera. It turned out this footage was of an unrelated rocket which got completely destroyed in air. Al Jazeera was actually one of few media outlets which correctly hypothesized that this rocket was unrelated to the incident.

The fact is, we still don’t know what happened, all we know is that many of the initial reports were false. There was a lot of lying involved to win the narrative (especially by Israeli officials), and there are at least two very credible hypotheses on what happened.
Clothes that can't be washed is a nonstarter for me outside of a few very specific things (suits, overcoats, etc.). It should be a nonstarter for more people.
we're talking sub-micrometer here, I doubt that the usual sieves can handle that
What did you want to say about instrumentation amplifiers / chest straps? :eyes:
>The total interest due on the debt is the flow that you should be comparing to the total income flow.

That's what these numbers are.

I'm talking about a calculated popular metric many people use for many countries all over the world.

It's really not a controversial or debated subject for either of these countries.
That is certainly not Hamas's main function. Netanyahu is obviously in some sense culpable for funneling resources to Hamas, but Hamas is, obviously, an independent actor; if it's an instrument of anyone's policy, it's Iran's --- though, since October 7, the aQB wing of Hamas appears to be completely on its own.
That's really cool, do you mind sharing?
>Wishing to live in a world in which no one could ever break the law, or in which companies were somehow magically responsible for guaranteeing no one would ever misuse their products is not a good outcome.

This is classic straw man stuff. No one is pretending we live in a perfect world in which these companies can hit a button and prevent all crime. The question is just what is the bare minimum of work they should do to prevent abuse. Everyone agrees with this at some level. We don't want Youtube to be filled with CSAM and we all agree that Google has some responsibility in preventing that. Once again, the question is just where the line exists.
I do think the snowball method also makes sense mathematically, depending on the loan terms and what you're optimizing for.

If your loans have a minimum payment and a penalty for missing a payment above and beyond interest (which seems to be common for loans in the US), the snowball method gives you more flexibility. Paying off a loan completely eliminates that part of your monthly minimum payment.

If in 2 or 5 years your income decreases unexpectedly (layoff, etc.), but by that point you've completely eliminated 1 or more loans, you're more likely to be able to continue making minimum payments.
I noticed this last year when a little street library popped up as a pokestop in the middle of my block but it wasn’t there irl. Players have been hacking and glitching Pokémon for decades. It’s harmless fun.
I have entertained the idea (if you believe in the quantum many worlds) that everyone will experience themselves as aging to infinitely old age, because in the parallel worlds, well, you don't exist.
But the button isn't bad. On most microwaves it probably even works well. Of course, if you rarely eat popcorn it's probably an unnecessary extra button.
Hi! We’re not simulating anything, we run a collaborative VNC (soon-to-be RDP) session through the browser. We can run anything that runs on Windows.
https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/
Also Midnight Commander's integrated editor: `mc -e`.
> they tend to share a common characteristic: they hold tons of cash, and no debt.

That describes the old-fashioned company that I worked for. They are only a bit over 100 years old, but they are cheap bastards. I learned how to work quite frugally, under them.
Yeah I have a few wool things that are 'dry clean only' which I really dislike.
What would it take to convince Meta to pivot into aqueduct-building?
I know a guy who plays Ingress, the Pokemon Go precursor where different teams claim locatios. There's one valuable location on an island fort (Pampus) that's closed in winter, so every autumn there was always a flurry of players trying to be the last to claim it before the winter.

But this guy has a pilot license, so he just flies a sports plane over the island to claim it just after it closed.

There's travel privilege, and then there's renting an actual plane for a game.
The Chevy Bolt is about as dumb as you're going to find. Manual controls for most HVAC and radio functions. AUX-in jack. Used models are cheap.
Thanks for the heads up! We are in a market for a cook top and it has never occurred to me it was this bad. Are there people who want this "feature" and pay extra for it?
> The region's production is limited to only about 8,000 litres annually.

It is not really clear if this limit is due to capacity or an artificial limit imposed by regulators.
Tell HN: Braid anniversary edition will be free for schools and universities
It's coming out on 14th of May and it will have over 15 hours of developer commentary.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/499180/Braid_Anniversary_Edition/
Throwaway for obvious reasons, but I've worked for Niantic on Pokemon Go, and this is a rather accurate portrayal of the company's relationship with a large part of the userbase.

Pokemon Go is basically a world-scale slot machine, and Niantic's entire business model revolves around preying on users' addictions to steer them into in-game purchases.

They are absolutely aware that a huge number of theirs users are addicted to the game, and they employ as many dark patterns as possible to extract every last dollar from these people.
Here, perhaps. (Just from a quick Google search.) I'm curious too.

https://www.littlespruceorganics.com/disana-organic-boiled-w...
This is onshape indeed, but we run a collaborative VNC (soon-to-be RDP) session through the browser. We can run anything that runs on Windows (so everything).
I signed up for a trial for WoW back in the day. It was about 3 seasons in, and the way the install worked was that you had to download and install each update separately, each of which was 2-3 GB each.

I was using a slow dial-up at the time and spent the duration of the trial downloading the game. When I got to log in for the first time in a playable state, it said my trial expired! So ended my WoW journey.

It would have made more sense to start the trial from the first login/entering character creation.

I like the Path of Exile model. The game is free to play, and you pay the price of a game to unlock inventory management. -- By that time you know if you are invested in the game or not.
Obviously a strict walled garden keeps out bad actors. The question is: Is it worth it? I say no.

People deserve to be trusted with the responsibility of making a choice. We are allowing everyone to buy power tools that can cause severe injuries when mishandled. No one blinks an eye. Just like we allow that to happen, we should allow people to use their devices in the way that they desire. If this means some malware can exist then I consider this to be acceptable.

In the meantime system security can always be improved still.
I'm an engineer, and I'm not much into the academic side of computer science. But I enjoy engineering very much.
Yeah, I've always been wary about wearing plastics that will melt onto your skin should they catch fire.
We usually save $5-8 per fill-up over the most convenient gas stations and are usually nearby when there isn't a line. Plus, it's well maintained and doesn't play ads on the islands and the people watching is entertaining.